Transhumanism

This Methods Futures brief focuses on transhumanism. The topic was selected by surveying various futures-related literature and chosen for the range of issues it can raise for social research methods and for its own visions of the future, particularly those related to human capacities.

The brief first outlines definitions of transhumanism. The following sections discuss transhumanist concepts, the potential social research methods-related issues that arise with transhumanism, and finally close with a consideration of methods futures in the context of transhumanism.